Top water users in the Las Vegas metro area revealed

13 Investigates obtained lists from water providers showing which businesses and residential properties consume the most water.

[forestpark]

Actually I remember this was the same news last year too… So basically nothing has been done yet.

[rosameryrojas-delcerro]

And nothing will EVER happen to any of them.

[wsurfer]

To be fair, if they have bigger homes they can use more water but not at 100 times the average. I would increase to a dollar a gallon after certain 100, 000 gallon per month is used. If the super rich think they can afford it then let them pay of it.

[maestoso]

This kind of investigative journalism should be done by more local news stations. Props to your team.

[richardoder]

Why weren’t you worried about this before it became a problem? I live in the desert and we have been in a drought ( 2.7” of rain in the past 12 months) for the past 18 months our normal yearly average is 19” and even in a normal year we conserve because we know dry years will come.

[tspaulding]

Millions of gallons of water? WHAT are you doing using MILLIONS of gallons of water in a residence? I was expecting to see hotels/casinos. No one of sound mind would try to have greenery in the desert 🙄🤯

[AW-tchy]

To help conserve water, the rate should be exponentially incremental to amount consumed. Make the rich subsidise the system.

[retromoviefan]

charging these people extra isn't going to stop them, people this rich can afford it.

[stolennimbus]

Scale the charge per gallon of water used, like the income tax rate. Say if it's over 2x the average household, charge them $100 a gallon.

[Voegele]

Honestly I agree with the fine to the top users. It's good and might help with funding water district projects. If they however use this as an excuse to raise the prices on normal people then it will affect a lot of people negatively which it sounds like they will do. The truth is Vegas it's not your fault lakemead is going down. We only use 4% of its water from the dam and we rely on its power heavily, but the Las Vegas water system is so Sophisticated out of all the water we use over 90% of that goes back into the lake.

What I'm trying to say is lake mead is going to dry up. It's mainly California's fault. They use over 51% of the water and with this they are basically going to doom the west.

It's like the climate change debate. Vegas can cut back all we want but we are such a small part of the problem that it won't make a difference. The only hope we have is one of these billionaires make an advanced megadesalinization plant for California so they can stop taking the water from other states like a parasite. That's not gonna happen though they got there sights on the stars too much.

[lisabenam]

You don’t need a change in mindset. Its your local government that needs to impose the law. There is no point in charging more or taxing more those who can afford to pay it anyway. Just limit the tap use. That’s where we’re all headed anyway. Limit usage per household period. Because the scary part in all this is we all go thirsty. We will only live 3 days without water.

[OKZK_Bros]

they say usage over 75 times more the average household, Dudes house is 75 times bigger than mine!

[bowlinglefty]

The top water users out of Lake Mead are California and Arizona. An mostly because they want to farm crops out in the desert.

[anonobot]

I mean 10 million gallons is a lot, yeah. I'm not anti-rich people. There's room in our landscaping to reduce the amount used outside and still have trees.

[robertmonk]

Stop watering the grass in city parks schools, golf courses and stop watering the dirt on baseball fields for half an hour. We’re all going to die from peoples ignorance, this government needs to wake up and take care of this mattter

[johndodge]

I don't know if the water company has heard of pipe lines, there are locations in Nevada that has springs fairly close to Vegas

[qualitycontent]

Really good video, kept me interested

[bobspizza]

All the people that tell us to conserve energy are the ones using the most

[jenkinssthomson]

Price them exponentially…each resident get a quota….if used 2x of quota…charge 100x price….if use 3x, charge 1000x

[rebelyell]

You can’t charge your way to saving water. You have to imprison the property owner. Raising prices will hurt the poor